How to Promote Yourself Part 6: Cross Promote!

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Choose 2 or 3 important urls [like your home page, myspace, twitter etc.] and put them as your email signature. [I wouldn’t do more than 3 or it’s too much.] Link your MySpace account to your Facebook, iTunes, Amazon, Twitter, YouTube etc. pages. Link Facebook to MySpace and the others I mentioned. Put your other links in your video descriptions on YouTube, especially iTunes and Amazon or any other site where people can purchase your music. Tweet out various urls at different times through your twitter account. Link to all of your other profiles from your homepage. Occasionally post a short blog and/or bulletin with all of your profile urls. Make it super easy for people to find ways to buy your music, and be your fan. This is very important because it’s hard enough to build up your numbers [that the whole world can see] on each profile, but if people who like you on MySpace can then easily find you on Facebook or iLike and be your fan there too, that’s only going to help you.

[Hi all,
Ellen here. I've decided to take a very long handout that I
created for my college students and break it down into a series of
blogs. This is a summary of what I know about promoting yourself and
your music online. If you or someone you know is a self released
artist who doesn't necessarily have a plan of action after the CDs are
manufactured, subscribe to this blog and read the series. I'm breaking
it down into bite sized portions. ]